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Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron’s latest play (co-written with Delia Ephron) is “Love, Loss and What I Wore.” Based on a book with the same name by Ilene Beckerman, the play focuses on clothes and the memories they trigger. The show runs February 16th, 23rd and March 2nd & 9th at 8 pm. Ticket information here.

After hearing the show I thought to check High5 to see if there were tickets available for NYC's young adults. Unfortunately, not. I think this would have been a great opportunity to share the arts with young women in NYC while also teaching them the value of social responsibility at its best. Oh well.

A benefit for Dress for Success justifies this segment and the play, no matter how trivial you might think the subject. I bristle at generalizations about women loving to shop and being obsessed with clothing. I'm not. Having said that, what woman doesn't have strong, formative memories about clothing--funny, traumatic or some combination of the two? It's part of life and one of the ways we define ourselves and are defined as women, too. Thankfully, we have Eve Ensler to give us a reality check about the horrific ways girls and women are treated globally. She'd dig a benefit for Dress for Success. We can all do something to help on some level.

As for the previous segment? Painful! I could barely live through it. Sounded to me as if the daughters were suffering from arrested development, stuck in that phase of teenage monosyllables and recalcitrance. It sounded as if all three of them were still struggling. Sad.

A few weeks a go I had a fire in my house and lost all my clothing from the last 20 years and more. It was heart broken, my wedding dress (that I kept for my daughter to try), shirts that I kept from my sister and mother who had passed away went along with the fire. We were lucky because nothing else was damagged and my 3 kids were out of the house. I do feel though as part of my New York life and experience when I was a young girl went away in that fire.

I can't believe that Eve Ensler is in town to speak about her efforts in the Congo and we are listening to stories of bras deflating. This show is painful - I'm nearly at the point of turning on Lifetime TV.

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